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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
I wonder what is going to happen on other networks as more and more people sign up. Surely there will come a point at which extra investment will not return sufficient performance and money to be worth doing at which point what will happen?
Ping is low priority traffic so gets dropped if the network gets busy. That's how it should work. So at the moment "BT" fibre is uncongested so pings are good. Will it remain good with all those new customers streaming TV content?
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People have been saying this for the last four years. So far, there's no evidence of any upcoming meltdown or service degradation.
Both OFCOM figures and user experience shows speeds remaining fairly steady or even improving, presumably due to further network investment, over the last few years. So far it's keeping up.
As for pings, they are NOT low priority traffic. Neither VM or BT classify or prioritize traffic by type, although VM do deprioritize P2P during peak hours.